Inside Jianguo Garden is a cake shop. Its name is BoboLEE and its popularity has been exploding since it started serving this polkadot cake that looks suspiciously like the pumpkin sitting outside the outer space monster tentacle art installation by famed Japanese creative icon Yayoi Kusama. We went to see what inspiration tastes like!

*** The cake shop is run by Bobo Lee, an independent designer turned pastry cook and a Le Cordon Bleu Japan graduate (ooh! fancy!). It certainly feels stylish. There is a huge living green wall inside and a camphor tree growing through its spacious glass room, marble tables, Haviland silverware, white tulip centerpiece. Elegant simplicity. BoboLEE CAKE's appeal, like many pasty shops these days, is visually stunning cakes. For example, the Japanese yuzu cake (98rmb), which looks like a lemon, and is full of kumquat bits and mousse. But we're not here for that cake. We're here for the Kusama Cake, which is actually called the pumpkin pineapple mousse cake (88rmb). It looks like this. The staff told me it had nothing to do with Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin, which looks like this. Alright, staff! I believe you. Maybe it was inspired by Lee’s deep connection with pumpkin, but the Kusama pattern certainly hasn't hurt its popularity. They only sell 10 of these every day and they're usually sold out by 2pm. You're going to be disappointed if you come for the cake. It is overly sweet, tiny and not outstanding, the polar opposite of Yayoi Kusama! The pennies go for the looks and the décor, which is tolerable for the price. They should open a gallery.